Nephrotoma quadrifaria

Nephrotoma quadrifaria, also known as the four-spotted cranefly, is a species of true cranefly found in most of Europe and Great Britain.[1] The subspecies N. q. farsidica is found in Iran.[2]

Nephrotoma quadrifaria
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Tipulidae
Genus: Nephrotoma
Species:
N. quadrifaria
Binomial name
Nephrotoma quadrifaria
(Meigen, 1804)
Synonyms

Subspecies

  • N. q. farsidica (Savchenko, 1957)
  • N. q. quadrifaria (Meigen, 1804)

References

  1. Brock, Paul D. (2021-06-08). Britain's Insects: A Field Guide to the Insects of Great Britain and Ireland. Princeton University Press. p. 343. ISBN 978-0-691-20499-4.
  2. Beaufortia. Institute for Systematics and Population Biology (Zoological Museum), University of Amsterdam. 1977. pp. 88, 93.


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